If you ever wanted to know who is on your favorite singer's playlist, or what albums inspired the latest “it girl” the most, tune in for Marie Claire’s resident music franchise Listen Up. In this interview series, we ask musicians about their listening habits and the specific records that informed their taste—and inherently their journey as an artist.
It’s hard not to see Ellie Rowsell, the lead singer of Wolf Alice, as a forerunner of the female-led indie rock takeover of the past decade. You would’ve been hard-pressed to hear many guitar bands with a female vocalist on alt-rock radio in the mid-2010s—but the British group emerged as iconoclasts of the Tumblr generation with their instantly iconic 2015 debut, My Love Is Cool.
